Definition of Happiness

I found happiness in collecting smiles and making people happy. How do you find your happiness?

In true words of Alice Walker, "don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get, you've got to make yourself."

So dear friends, do more of what makes YOU happy.

Today's lesson.

Those who are the happiest, never did have everything.

But rather, they are thankful for everything they do have.

Love, meet hearts.

How do I love thee, let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight 

For the ends of being and ideal grace. 

 

I love thee to the level of every day's

Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. 

I love thee freely, as men strive for right.

I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose 

With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, 

Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, 

I shall but love thee better after death.

(Elizabeth Barret Browning, Sonnet 43) 

Soon.

Soon. Very soon.

Wait for me.

It's all because two people fell in love.

The story started when two people fell in love.

And decided they should spend the rest of their lives tormenting with each other.

Come rain and shine.

For better or worse.

May you both love each other every step of the way, Insya Allah. ;-)

Classic Wedding (Part 3: The Withered Roses)

(Please be warned that this entry is laden with pictures)

The withered roses - it started off as an experiment, as I love withered flowers so much. Then it became an obsession that was hard to let go, and the next thing I know, I had made aplenty of them. In variety of colours too. +__+

 So, we had the withered roses everywhere during the wedding hehe. I put them on some boxes for the bride’s family...

 

… and made some of the flowers as the corsages & buttonnaires…

 

.. . and some, on the wedding guestbook (one of those rare cases where I made one)

And plastered them on the wedding signage too…

The signage, bearing the groom and the bride’s names, was quilled in Jawi writing (Arabic alphabets being used to spell Malay words and pronounced as such). All quilling strips were hand-painted and hand-cut. Tedious job, but I’m loving the outcome so much I might do it again. ;-)